KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday said he was considering bringing forward by a year the presidential election set for 2014 to reduce the pressure on the conflict-plagued country during the period when majority of NATO coalition troops are scheduled to withdraw.
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Philippines mulls pullout of Syria peacekeepersThe Philippine foreign secretary says he is recommending to President Benigno Aquino III to pull out all Filipino U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights following the abduction of four by Syrian rebels. More

Iran president still a force even as his era endsWhen many struggling families in this eastern Iranian city take stock of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's legacy, it's not about the oratory full of bluster and menace or his tussles with Iran's ruling clerics that are known to much of the world. More

Hillary Clinton Gets Another Nudge for 2016Paging, Hillary Clinton. Emily’s List, the influential abortion-rights group that backs Democratic women, unveiled an initiative Thursday to help put a woman in the White House. The group announced a six-figure digital media campaign and new polling that shows a strong appetite for a female commander-in-chief as part of its “Madame President” campaign. More

How Hamid Karzai Continues to Rule Afghanistan From Beyond the (Political) GraveThe Afghan constitution ... program of action during his election campaign. Additionally, Abdullah Abdullah, the chief executive of the Unity Government, seeks his power base among non-tribal sections of the population and considers too much tribalism ...07/24/2015 - 8:55 am | View Link

Karzai in His LabyrinthI asked what he thought would happen during the election in Kandahar ... Now the money goes to the Taliban and kills British and Americans and Afghan soldiers.” This is the same logic that Karzai used to try to get Akhundzada reinstalled as governor ...11/9/2014 - 12:49 pm | View Link

Afghanistan’s Karzai said to be in secret talks with TalibanKABUL — Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has been holding secret talks with Taliban officials in the hope of persuading them to make peace with his government, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed Afghan and Western officials.02/3/2014 - 9:48 pm | View Link

President Karzai, Stand Tall Against U.S. Pressure to Sign the Troop Deal... prisoners from Gitmo to Afghanistan and start the peace talks with the Afghan Taliban to end the war. According to the U.S. news media, the fact that Karzai is holding out risks disaster. What's the terrible thing that could happen if there's no agreement?12/17/2013 - 7:55 pm | View Link

Kerry, Karzai on 'same page' after meeting in AfghanistanA key hurdle in the dispute over Parwan was a ruling by an Afghan judicial panel holding ... the U.S. considers them part of an ongoing conflict. Both Kerry and Karzai lauded the transfer of the facility. Karzai said an Afghan review board would carefully ...03/24/2013 - 4:05 pm | View Link

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The U. S. embassy in Montenegro published a security notice about an “active security situation” early on Thursday amid reports of a suicide explosive attack, which the government confirmed.
The government of Montenegro confirmed that an unknown assailant threw an “explosive device” at the embassy before killing himself with another explosive, the Associated Press reports.
An individual attacked the embassy complex with explosives around midnight on Wednesday night, Reuters reported, citing local media.

mdash; Doctors in Syria’s rebel-controlled suburbs of Damascus said Wednesday they were unable to keep up with the staggering number of casualties, amid a ferocious bombing campaign by government forces that has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds of people in recent days.
The bombardment has forced many among the nearly 400,000 residents to sleep in basements and makeshift shelters, and has overwhelmed rescue workers who have spent days digging out survivors from the wreckage of bombed out buildings.
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(MAIDUGURI, Nigeria) — About 50 young women remained missing Wednesday after Boko Haram extremists attacked a village in northern Nigeria that is home to a boarding school for girls, provoking fears that they may have met the same fate as those kidnapped from the town of Chibok nearly four years ago.
Abdullahi Bego, a spokesman for the governor in Yobe state, said that authorities had no credible information that those missing from the village of Dapchi were taken by Boko Haram.

The devastation wrought in Eastern Ghouta by a relentless bombardment by the Syrian regime has forced doctors to use expired drugs and scramble for water as the number of dead reached 300 in three days, medics and activists said.